The MyHeart MyLife support program is a free digital program which aims to meet the information and support needs of adults living with coronary heart disease and those who care for them. The program complements your clinical care and cardiac rehabilitation by helping patients to better manage their heart health to reduce their risk of future events and live well with heart disease.
The MyHeart MyLife Facebook community connects people living with a heart condition, and those caring for them, with others on a similar journey who understand what they’re going through.
Recommend the program to your patients. Share the MyHeart MyLife referral flyer or refer your patients to myheartmylife.org.au.
Patients register at myheartmylife.org.au with their contact details and respond to a few brief questions so we can tailor their support.
Patients receive evidence-based information and practical tips via online content, emails and text messages. Patients can also access the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community.
Our Chief Medical Advisor Prof. Garry Jennings describes how the program complements the care you provide to patients with coronary heart disease.
Hear from Rowena, a heart event survivor, and cardiologist Prof. Raj Puranik, about how the MyHeart MyLife program supports patients with coronary heart disease.
MyHeart MyLife was a great support tool that answered a lot of questions and reduced the fear and anxiety of not knowing the best path forward. It was comforting to know that I was not alone in this journey.
MyHeart MyLife participant
The MyHeart MyLife community is a closed Facebook group connecting people living with a heart condition, and their loved ones and carers (peer support).
Moderated by the Heart Foundation, the group unites people across Australia touched by heart disease, helping them to feel less alone no matter where they are on their heart health journey.
Offer the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community to your patients, available at facebook.com/groups/myheartmylifecommunity
The Heart Foundation would like to acknowledge and thank the many people and organisations that have contributed to the design and development of the digital MyHeart MyLife program, including patients, carers and health professionals across the country, our Consumer Advisory Group members, and our digital agency Endava.
University of Sydney Westmead Applied Research Centre
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We would like to particularly acknowledge the foundational work of Prof. Clara Chow and her research team at Westmead Applied Research Centre from which evidence-based behaviour change strategies have been adapted for the MyHeart MyLife program. |
We would also like to acknowledge and thank all of those involved in the research, pilot program and needs assessment that informed the design of the MyHeart MyLife program:
The Tobacco, Exercise and Diet Messages (TEXT ME) trial
Chow CK, Redfern J, Hillis GS, et al. Effect of Lifestyle-Focused Text Messaging on Risk Factor Modification in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015;314(12):1255–1263. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10945
The MyHeart MyLife Pilot evaluation
Kazi S, Truesdale C, Ryan P, Wiesner G, Jennings G, Chow C. Initial Implementation of the My Heart, My Life Program by the National Heart Foundation of Australia: Pilot Mixed Methods Evaluation Study. JMIR Cardio. 2023;7:e43889. doi:10.2196/43889
Literature review: Information needs and communication strategies for people with coronary heart disease: a scoping review
Zwack CC, Smith C, Poulsen V, Raffoul N, Redfern J. Information Needs and Communication Strategies for People with Coronary Heart Disease: A Scoping Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023;20(3):1723. doi:10.3390/ijerph20031723
MyHeart MyLife program – qualitative consumer research
Conducted by Heartward Strategic, 2022
This program was developed with partial funding received from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (formerly known as the Department of Health and Aged Care).
